into the studio with chris allen for a day’s shoot of chase & status vocalists. i’m pulling together the visuals for the chase & status autumn tour for the light surgeons. this was the first step: film four vocalists over seven tracks in one day. kano up first, though without the against all odds afro.
diary | 28 aug 2009 | tagged: *spark · vj · light surgeons · chase+status
onto jenna g for [in love]. this started off all warm orange fuzz, and ended up barely blue. strange how things evolve sometimes.
diary | 28 aug 2009 | tagged: *spark · vj · light surgeons · chase+status
third up, takura for three tracks. we’re in double shoot mode here, flicking the lights and filming in HD and nightshot going for some frenetic cuts when it gets to post.
diary | 28 aug 2009 | tagged: *spark · vj · light surgeons · chase+status
finally, its plan b for the rip-it-up pieces and their new single ‘end credits’, taken from the upcoming film harry brown. think gran turino but with michael caine instead of clint eastwood, but from the opening minute that i’ve seen, hard hitting would be an understatement.
diary | 28 aug 2009 | tagged: *spark · vj · light surgeons · chase+status
chase and status delivery time: here’s a still from against all odds. this was a nice one to make, splicing together with a good dose of graphical sensibility the card-game-in-a-smoky-nightclub promo video c&s had already with the vocalist shoot we did at the beginning of the project.
diary | 20 sep 2009 | tagged: vj · light surgeons · chase+status
in many ways, this is my favourite video. they wanted the vocalists up on the screen, and this certainly delivers but taking it into chris cunningham territory. the magic was shooting with two cameras simultaneously, one recording crystal clear HD and the other super contrasty nightshot, while flicking the lights around. just compositing the two straight gave a crazy shifting ghost effect, and after some audioreactive magic and graphics passes the effect is really intricate. and with barely a manual keyframe, to boot.
i’ve made a 4-up frame to try and give an idea, but in retrospect it should have been a filmstrip of adjacent frames, the representation of takura flickering around.
diary | 20 sep 2009 | tagged: vj · light surgeons · chase+status
saxon was a straight 2D after effects mission, animating up the cover artwork and compositing into it carnival soundsystem footage. its a heavy dubstep track, and i spent some time making the visuals really follow the bass… looping keyframe expressions ahoy. i’ll upload videos once the tour is over.
diary | 20 sep 2009 | tagged: vj · light surgeons · chase+status
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